Teacher efficacy is largely unexplored in Trinidad and Tobago, resulting in a deficit in understanding of teachers' beliefs about their ability to teach. This is important since teachers' beliefs influence how they feel ...

This article reports on the views of five secondary school science teachers who accepted the challenge to explore the self-assessment aspect of their practice, with specific respect to their understandings of classroom ...

This article examines the role of the teacher as learner, as teachers assess problems they or their students encounter in the teaching/learning process, and try to overcome them. It notes the obstacles encountered by the ...

This chapter presents results of researches on teacher education and its contemporary outlines and challenges. It brings together data from bibliographic reviews, documental analyses and empirical studies conducted by the ...

This article deals with a study carried out at Universidad de Caldas, a public institution for higher education in Colombia, South America. The purpose is to state the impact of the Action Research Model on the professional ...

Being a supervisor-researcher in a preservice EFL program is a critical role in that it enables student-teachers to complete their theses and learn how to conduct research. Through a trio ethnographic approach, this chapter ...